Heir to her late mother's legendary beauty, Princess Lissar becomes the victim of her grief-maddened father's desire. Fleeing her home, she seeks solace and solitude in a great forest--and discovers a magic that leads her toward healing and justice. Loosely based on ``Donkeyskin,'' an obscure fairy tale by Charles Perrault, this story of a young woman's survival and recovery is both a classic hero's journey-tale and a parable for modern times. Award-winning YA author McKinley turns her storytelling acumen and stylistic grace toward an adult audience, handling incest and rape with unflinching honesty while at the same time building a case for hope and renewal. A good choice for fantasy collections.
Sometimes a one-sided conversation with a book just isn’t enough. Here are a few tales of epistolary encounters (or not) with our literary idols: When I was 14, a children’s librarian recommended my dad pass along a copy of Francesca Lia Block’s story collection Girl Goddess #9. I just love that my dad is the […]